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The D0minie's Wife.

A few triumphs in the matter Of
opinion have most salutary effect in
giving q woman the respect of her
husband. A noted doctor of divinity
has discovered this fact. He has q
wife who is quick wittcd and as sensi-
BILE as he is. They have several bright
children, and their household is one of
the happiest in America; but Mrs.
Dominic has sometimes contidentially
remarked that men do get dreadfully
arrogant and disagrecable, even the
best of them, unless they are taken
down" once in q while.
One day, the doctor and his wife
were discussing the matter of putting
up q shelf in certain room.
'"This is the proper side on which to
put it up" said the Dominic, severely.
II beg your pardon, my dear, but /
should say shelf put up there would
tumble down." rejoined Mrs. Dominic,
thoughtfully. "Now, on that side are
joists, to which brackets could be tas-
tened"
"There are no joists on that side,"
averred the Dominic, with conviction.
"You can't really tell until you
sound the wall with a hammer or
something heavy" said Mrs. Dominic.
II think there are joists there"
The carpenter came the next day
and nut up the shelf on Mrs. Domi-
nie's side. He said there were joists
on that side, and there wasn't any
solid support on the other. Did Mrs.
Dominic crow over her husband ?
Not bit OF it. That would split the
whole thing. She just laughed at him
demurely out of the corner of her
ewes, and kissed him, and told him he
was the very dearest, sweetest man in
existence, which made him give her
u playful box on the ear and shake
of mock reproof. But, in his heart,
he respected her because she had a
real opinion, and it had been a good
one.
Again there was a step-ladder to be
put away. Where should they put
it?"
"There's n long closet" suggested
Mrs. Dominic.
"Oh, it won't 60 in there!" declared
Dominic.
"Now, you try it," persisted his
wife. II think it will"
"Lct me measure" said the Domi-
ME, gravely, and he produced a meas
ure and went at it.
"I was right" he said, "it isl now
mathematically demonstrated that the
ladder will not go into the closet"
II don't think you have calculated
upon the slant that I propose to give
| it..n insisted his wife. ~ don't wish
to seem absurd, but I feel moral GER
tainty that that ladder will go into the
closet. Please make the attempt now,
just to crafty me-"
The Dominic grumblcd, and said
something under his breath about
chow strangely even the most reason
able of women would sometimes con-
duct themselves" :" but he carried the
ladder on, and-it fitted into the closet
| like charm
Mrs. Dominic put her face into a
convenient pillow and laughed so hard
that even the Dominic, who was in
clined to he II little cross, had to laugh
little himself. "Do forgive me!
cried Mrs. Dominic, putting up a
bright face at his "you have such Il
noble decision of character, my dear
that can't bear to disparage it, but
don't you think that you sometimes,
very occasionally, let it get the better
of you?"
And the Dominic confessed, with a
grim and somewhat chagrined smile,
that possibly sometimes he did. But
he loved her the more, because she
had shown that she had an opinion of
her own, and the power to maintain
it."-Good Cheer.